Click My Link: December 3, 2012

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Good Morning, and Happy December to you!

Our friend @librarymary40 talks about Baby Steps of Collection Analysis: Using Excel with Collection Data.

 25 Notable books unfairly overlooked by the NYT. (Really? It was UNFAIR? Come on.)

Hatchet Job of the year? Zoe Heller vs. Salman Rushdie in the NYTRB. (This should be interesting.)

David Oliver Relin, co-author of Three Cups of Tea, dies at 49.

From the Mac Observer: Everything about Ebooks & Ereaders....pt. 1.

Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl documentary spurs new interest in an old title.

Are you an intelligent person on the planet? If so, Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks you should read (or have already read) these books.

What were the most popular songs of 2012? (so tempted to check the circ on these CDs to see if the numbers reflect that popularity.)

10 new "must reads" for December.

An online retirement party? 36 Famous Writers on Philip Roth's retirement

Should books be a part of emergency relief efforts? Hell yeah!

How the internet has become the bookstore front window.

On the tyranny of the happy ending: Has our pep-talk-prone culture led readers to shun tragic literary classics?

Hollywood's 25 Most Powerful Authors.


Just for fun:
The Battle of Helm's Deep like you've not seen before. Lego-ized and hilarious.

The Game of Thrones S3 trailer -- for your viewing pleasure.

Your favorite superheroes sporting mustaches. (someone mentioned it makes them all look like Tom Selleck!)

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